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(No ModeL) T. GINGRAS.

LEATHER WASHER.

No. 331,293. Patented Dec. 1, 1885.

.Withessea Inventor UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TIMOTHY GINGRAS, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

LEATHER WASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,293, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed September 28, 1885. Serial No. 178,332.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY GINGRAS, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Leather W'ashers; and Ido hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has, general reference to improvements in leather washers; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings already mentioned, which serve to illustrate my said invention more fully, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation in line y y of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional elevation in line 00 0c of Fig. 1.

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in all the figures.

The object of my present invention is the production of a cheap leather washer for such purposes where a tight joint is not a requisite, such as axles-washers, 800. To attain this result, I construct a leather washer of a strip of leather, having the proper length to form a ring of the desired diameter, when the ends 13 are butted, and secure them together by means of a metallic double-pointed tack or staple, O, driven through the leather from the outer to the inner side, (or from side to side, if desired,) and clinched on the opposite side at O O, the staple or fastening being embedded into the leather, so that there is no metallic portion projecting beyond the surface of the washer.

By constructing the washer in the manner described I obtain many advantages not capa- (No model.)

ble of being attained by any other method of procedure,prominent of which are, that I may 5 make these washers entirely of waste material, such as is abundantly found in belt-factories and other establishments using leather, that much less of the stock is used; that less labor is consumed in forming the ring and securing the joint, and that the subsequent operations of pressing and polishing can be much more readily performed than when the ends are joined in any other manner.

In places Where the possible exposure of the metal would act injuriously to adjacent por tions, I prefer to use a double-pointed tack or staple, made of copper or analogous soft metal, while for purposes where no injury would result from such exposure I may employ tacks or staples made from a cheaper material.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. As an improved article of nianufacturea leather washer consisting of an annular ring having an abutting joint secured together by a double-pointed tack or staple inserted substantially as described, for the use and purpose indicated.

2. The herein-described improved leather washer, consisting of astrip of leatherhaving square ends, as described, said strip being formed into an annulus and the abutting ends secured together by means of a doublepointed tack or staple driven into the'leather from the periphery of the ring and clinched on the inner side thereof, substantially as and for the object specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

TIMOTHY GINGRAS.

Witnesses:

MICHAEL J. STARK, J EssIE A. TULLEY. 

